Speedy Gonzales ... Pat Boone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFXCPDQKOH4

 

Songwriters: HESS, DAVID / KAYE, BUDDY / LEE, ETHEL

SPOKEN: It was a moonlit night in old Mexico. I walked alone between some old
adobe haciendas. Suddenly, I heard the plaintive cry of a young Mexican girl.

You better come home, Speedy Gonzales
Away from tannery row
Stop alla your a-drinkin'
With that floozie named Flo
Come on home to your adobe
And slap some mud on the wall
The roof is leakin' like a strainer
There's loadsa roaches in the hall

Speedy Gonzales, why don'tcha come home?
Speedy Gonzales, how come ya leave me all alone?

SPOKEN in a male Mexican accent: "Hey, Rosita-I hafta go shopping downtown
for my mudder-she needs some tortillas and chili peppers."

Your doggy's gonna have a puppy
And we're runnin' outta coke
No enchiladas in the icebox
And the television's broke
I saw some lipstick on your sweatshirt
I smelled some perfume in your ear
Well if you're gonna keep on messin'
Don't bring your business back a-here

Mmm, Speedy Gonzales, why don'tcha come home?
Speedy Gonzales, how come ya leave me all alone?

SPOKEN in a male Mexican accent: "Hey, Rosita-come queek-down at the cantina
they giving green stamps with tequila!!"

"Speedy Gonzales"
Single by Pat Boone
Released	1962
Recorded	1962
Genre	Pop
Writer(s)	Buddy Kaye, Ethel Lee, David Hess

The song was popularised in the United States as a 1962 single by Pat Boone.^[2] The Boone version peaked at the #6 Billboard Hot 100 position in 1962 during a total chart run of 13 weeks, doing better in many national charts in Europe, where it sold a million copies.^[3] The female voice ("La-la-la...") on this song was of Robin Ward.^[3] It also incorporated Mel Blanc voicing Speedy Gonzales as he did in the Warner Brothers cartoons.

Other English language versions

• Speedy Gonzales was also covered by The Wurzels on their 1975 album The Wurzels Are Scrumptious
• In English but with Cantonese spoken section: "墨西哥女郎" by The Fabulous Echoes featuring Tang Kei Chan (鄧寄塵)(Hong Kong, 1965)
• In 1969 the song was recorded by the Hep Stars and became their last single^[4]
• In 1977, Charo and the Salsoul Orchestra made a cover on the album Cuchi Cuchi
• In 2002, the Belgian band Swoop had a hit with a cover version

Other language versions

• In Spanish: Manolo Muñoz, The Sacados.
• In German ("Kleiner Gonzales"): Rex Gildo
• In French ("Le Petit Gonzales"): Danyel Gérard, Dalida and Pierre Lalonde
• In Italian: Johnny Dorelli, Peppino Di Capri.
• In Greek: "Kakosalesi" by Yannis Miliokas (1986)
• In Norwegian: "Fisking i Valdres" (Fishing in Valdres) by Viggo Sandvik (1988).